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Article 110 1. The President may dissolve the National Assembly in accordance with this Article . 2. Subject to clause (5), the President may, not more than once during a term of office of the President, for any reason which the President considers it to be in the national interest so to do, after giving seven days notice to the Speaker, by Proclamation published in the Gazette, dissolve the National Assembly and the Assembly shall stand dissolved on the day next following the publication of the Proclamation. 3. Subject to clause (5) where during a term of office of the President the President has once dissolved the National Assembly under clause (2) and the President is of the opinion that it is in the national interest to dissolve the Assembly once again, the President may, after giving to the Speaker - a. seven days' notice of the intention to dissolve the Assembly; and b. written notice of the President's intention to resign from office under Article 52(5) on the publication of the Proclamation under this Article , by Proclamation, published in the Gazette, dissolve the National Assembly and the Assembly shall stand dissolved and the President shall cease to hold office on the day next following the publication of the Proclamation. 4. Where - a. the National Assembly votes against any measure or proposal of the Government and on a referendum a majority of the votes cast in the referendum supports the measure or proposal and the Assembly, after the referendum, again votes against the measure or proposal, b. a proposal to alter Chapter I, Chapter III, Article 91, this Article or Article 111 has been approved on a referendum held pursuant to Article 91 and a Bill to give effect to the proposal is not supported as required by Article 91 (2) in the National Assembly, the President may, after giving seven days' notice to the Speaker, by Proclamation published in the Gazette, dissolve the National Assembly within thirty days of the Assembly voting against the measure or proposal under paragraph (a) or the Assembly not supporting the Bill under paragraph (b) , as the case may be and the Assembly shall stand dissolved on the day next following the publication of the Proclamation. 5. The President shall not dissolve the National Assembly under clause (2) or clause (3) during any period of public emergency in terms of Article 49 or, where proceedings for the removal of the President under Article 53 or Article 54 have commenced, during the pendency of the proceedings.